Title: Toxicology - Happy Holidays

Category: Toxicology

Keywords: adverse drug reaction (PubMed Search)

Posted: 12/25/2008 by Fermin Barrueto (Updated: 3/4/2026)

Watch out for tradename and generic name's of medications.

They can get the patient and yourself into trouble:

Classic example is my own case: Insert a central line in a patient - subclavian - and shortly after completion am alerted the patient's INR is 25. No adverse outcome but when I reviewed the med list, I did not see coumadin or warfarin and assumed I was in the clear. Patient was on jantoven.

Happy Holidays